A paper published by Prof. Vidal’s group in Chem. Eur. J. has been highlighted in Synfacts, 12(10), 1068. Synfacts selects the most significant results on synthetic organic chemistry that appear in the literature considered as the future trends in synthetic chemistry. The authors show that Iridium(I) complexes with phosphine–phosphite ligands efficiently catalyze the enantioselective hydrogenation of […]

A paper published by Prof. Pericàs group in Green Chemistry has been highlighted in Synfacts, 12 (09),0990. Synfacts selects the most significant results on synthetic organic chemistry that appear in the literature considered as the future trends in synthetic chemistry. The paper describes that a polystyrene (PS) immobilized triazolylproline has been prepared by a bottom-up approach […]

The Universitat Rovira i Virgili (URV) has awarded Dr. Morgane Gaydou with the Premi Extraordinari de Doctorat for her thesis entitled “Gold(I)-Catalyzed Cyclizations and Enantioselective Total Synthesis of (+)-Schisanwilsonene A.” She defended her thesis on October 14th, 2015 at the ICIQ auditorium. Morgane carried out her PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. Antonio M. […]

Sergio Fernández, PhD student in Professor Lloret-Fillol’s group, received the Poster Presentation Award at the XXXIV GEQO Congress (Girona, September 7-9) organised by the Organometallic Chemistry Specialized Group of the Real Sociedad Española de Química.  Sergio presented a poster entitled “Study of the electronic effects in the water/proton reduction process catalyzed by pyridilamino cobalt complexes.”. […]

  Dr. Fedor Miloserdov, postdoctoral researcher in Professor Echavarren’s group, received the Asian Journal of Organic Chemistry poster prize at the Asian-European Symposium on Metal-Mediated Efficient Organic Synthesis (9thAES, Stockholm, September 4-7) for his poster entitled ‘Total Synthesis of Grandilodine C.’ The poster was about the total synthesis of racemic Grandilodine C. A highly efficient […]

Balakrishna Bugga, PhD student under the supervision of Prof. Anton Vidal, has defended his PhD Thesis entitled ‘Development of P-OP Ligands with New Structural Motifs for Rhodium- and Iridium- Mediated Asymmetric Hydrogenations’ (assigned to the Organic and Analytical Chemistry Department of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili) publicly on September 9th at the ICIQ Library. The […]

Professor Antonio M. Echavarren has been included, for the third consecutive year, in the Highly Cited Researchers 2016 list provided by Thomson Reuters. Highly Cited Researchers 2016 represents some of the world’s most influential scientific minds. About three thousand researchers earned this distinction by writing the greatest number of reports officially designated by Essential Science Indicators […]